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...Texas Congressman Bill Archer, Parker wants the seat he nearly won two years ago. A fourth-generation citizen of Huntsville, he touts his support of the district's military and space industry--the Defense Department alone employs 7,500 area residents--and, with an opponent with less pac money to spend than he had a year ago, Parker may close the narrow...
Unseating a two-term Democratic incumbent in a mostly Democratic district is a formidable task, but Gentry doesn't think it's a mission impossible. He refuses to take PAC donations for his campaign, saying he wants to reduce the corrupting influence of special-interest groups. Cutting taxes and balancing the budget top his agenda...
...then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...
...positioned to take advantage of this windfall--a fact that Dole was well aware of. In 1993 Dole touted the accounts on television the day after Golden Rule flew the Senator to meet with company chairman J. Patrick Rooney. Later Golden Rule executives gave $30,000 to Dole's pac. Golden Rule also gave the Republican National Committee more than $500,000 for the 1994 election cycle, in which the G.O.P. captured both the House and the Senate...
There aren't many sugarcane growers in Kansas. Yet Dole went out of his way to help Palm Beach, Florida, resident Jose ("Pepe") Fanjul, one of the world's major sugar producers, who, with his companies and clan, has given Dole and his pac more than $62,000 over the years as well as $419,000 to the Republican Party since 1991. Dole opposed a plan last winter to tax Florida cane growers 2' for each pound of their product to help restore the Everglades, which is dying from the phosphorus runoff of sugar plantations like Fanjul...